Canadian Paralympian, veteran offered suicide by Trudeau government after asking for in-home chairlift

CANADIAN NEWS
Dec 4, 2022

"Madam, if you are really so desperate, we can give you medical assistance in dying now," Paralympian Christine Gauthier reportedly was told by a Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker.

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Now that is unconscionable.  I bet the person isn’t fired or even reprimanded.

It just goes to show how far down the rabbit hole the Canadian MAiD assisted murder law has stooped for the worse!

Not just for incapacitated people who are in commas, but also for the mentally ill and now... it looks like for anybody who wants to die!

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But she wants to live and they won’t give her the items she needs to be able to leave her home safely.

The problem is that services in this country are divided between feds and the provinces, what she's asking for technically is a Provincial responsibility, she's going to the Feds who can't offer her what she needs, that's the issue here.

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But she wants to live and they won’t give her the items she needs to be able to leave her home safely.

That's the stickler... she wants to live so they offer her an assisted death option?!?!?!

It just goes to show how degraded the assisted suicide MAiD act has become... offering somebody who doesn't need nor want the option of assisted suicide. It's thus basically available to anyone who wants it and they're even pushing it to those who don't want it to boot!

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Then why don’t they send her to the proper resource?

It's not so much about them sending her the proper resources, it's that she's not going to the proper outlet for those resources and then publicly directing her anger at the wrong end of Government services, don't get me wrong, the offer of MAID was ridiculous and an affront, but it would never of happened if she went to the proper Provincial authority for what she needed. 

But did she know? I'm not sure why it's ok to blame her when she may have been do8ng the best she could.

Everyone in Canada knows that health care, whatever kind it is is the responsibility of the Provinces. I'll be the first to admit, our bureaucratic system is a nightmare to navigate, but this is just obvious.

It is true however, that veterans fall into a unique classification with even more bureaucratic hassle, and a quick search reveals a fork of programs and sites to go to for trying to identify what she was requesting, although it's made very clear on the first page that former Forces members should: 

1. Former members or reserve force members of the Canadian Forces are eligible for health care benefits from VAC, to the extent that these benefits are not available to them through the Service Income Security Insurance Plan (SISIP) or through the Public Service Health Care Plan.